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Make-Up Free Blonde Lady Terrorizes Vacation Town
Because it's been a slow news month, here is a picture of benevolent-looking actress and orchardist Gwyneth Paltrow with no make-up on. I like her earrings. She's in the Hamptons. She probably had some white wine and swayed a bit to an Allman Brothers song and then maybe picked up one of her little ones and pointed at some birds and then went home and went to bed. ISN'T IT HIDEOUS??? [LA Rag Mag] Click thru for larger, soul crushing, city-destroying image.
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Disabled Models Compete In New Reality Show
Bodies are beautiful, even if parts of them are missing. This is thesis for a new show called Britain's Missing Top Model, a competition series featuring contestants with disabilities, including amputees and a paraplegic. The show has been a hit in the UK, some are praising its bold mission, calling it revolutionary and groundbreaking and all that. These girls are all lovely, no matter what, "you just have to position them in a different way," says Jonathan Phang, the show's Jay Manuel. Hiding it! It's as easy as that! Well, on the show it's that easy. Is this whole premise really all that empowering, or are irregularities, yet again, simply being exploited? More »
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Matt Damon Joins Fat Actors Prestige Club
Good Will Hunting actor Matt Damon has been spotted sporting some packed-on pounds while filming the movie The Informant. His character is, I guess, supposed to be just a "regular guy," meaning his abs aren't toned and washboarded and he maybe eats a cheeseburger every now and then. As actresses tend to ugly up their faces and put on prosthetic noses and teeth to get serious acting cred, it seems that actors often have to let themselves go in the waistline. I'm sure that says something about standards of beauty for men vs. women, but that's a whole exhausting topic that ends with yelling and a lot of Betty Friedan quotes. So instead we'll take a look, after the jump, at seven other guys who bulked-up for movie roles, with some mixed results. More »
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Did America's Next Top Model's "Plus-Sized" Winner Lose Weight Right Away?
Last week we wondered loudly if this season of America's Next Top Model had been fixed. A plus-sized model won and all and yeah, yeah isn't that great. Some people, though, smelled a rat. Did she really deserve to win? Was this just producer plotting to make the show seem more fair? In much the same way that rumors have been circulating that, per producer decree, a woman has to win this (the fourth) season of Top Chef, critics have suggested that the show, after umpteen "cycles" featuring plus-sized girls, predetermined that a "larger" model would win this season. A token, if you will. Adding to the fervor is the Seventeen magazine cover shoot that the winner, Whitney Thompson, received as a prize. Does she really look like a size 14, as she claims she is? Did she just pack on pounds to be The Plus-Sized and then drop weight again after the victory, as some have suggested? Having little to no knowledge of sizes and whatnot (boys!), tell me: does she look like a size 14 in these photos? I'm sure some airbrushing occurred, but does she look anything close to her purported size? It would be something of a scandal if the whole thing was, you know, staged. Click to enlarge (heh) the photo. (More at Mollygood.)
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Heath Ledger and Mary-Kate Olsen: Separated at Birth
Look closely at the late Heath Ledger and the... uh... early? Mary-Kate Olsen (who was mysteriously involved in the speculation following the actor's death) and note their similar bone structure, the way their cheeks dip in, and the general hay-like appearance of their hair. (We realize that the sunglasses are obviously not the same pair.) Is there some sort of astral projection here? Has the spirit of Heath been imbued in this, our unsexiest Olsen? I mean, the connection would make sense. After all, she's already played a grumbling cowboy before. [Via eden]
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From Shirtless Innocent to Shirtless Rebel
Jesse Metcalfe was dumped from ABC lady soap Desperate Housewives (where he played a sexy boy toy gardener), starred in a PSA about Choices called John Tucker Must Die, went to rehab, and has now, according to new photos, reemerged, grizzled and with one large pectoral muscle. Not exactly sure what he's trying to tell us with this latest look other than that he's now "tough" (note the presence of chest hair!) and evidently smokes. (Oh and he's in a new action movie costarring Chace Crawford! Badass!) The photo at right is part of a group that was uploaded, sadly, to his MySpace page. Thanks, but no thanks Jesse. Click through for larger image, and for an awful trailer for his sooo cooooool movie Loaded. [Picture on right via ohlala mag] More »
From the Commenters
OK, it needs to be recognized that commenter digitalsmoothie apparently looks like John Mayer and has a younger brother who looks uncannily like Ben from Make Me a Supermodel. Also of note: his parents poop gold and fairy dust and his sister is the summer breeze.
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Hoes Before Bros: The Make Me a Supermodel Finale
Last night's finale of Make Me a Supermodel brought tears, joy, sadness, and an odd sense of... justice? Yes indeedy. For the duration of the Bravo competition series, the boys have dominated, not because they were better models per se, but because the show's viewer and voting base is (I'm assuming) largely made up of women and gays. It seemed like a foregone conclusion that a dude would win, most likely spunky gay Chicagoan Ronnie. Sexy but bratty prison guard Ben was also a possibility, but it definitely would not be that thing with a bagina, Holly. But! Before we get to the ending, let's go to the middle. More »
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The Many Faces of Jared Leto
Jared Leto just keeps on changing. After seeing the actor/singer on a new horrifying movie poster, we got to thinking about how many times this guy has changed his "look." Whether it's for fun, for a role, or for a silly rock band (30 Seconds to Mars) he's always got a new style. Here's a little collage of the chameleon man, starting with Jordan Catalano, of course, and running the course from blond, to eyeliner-ed, bloated, and back to makeup wearing rockstar (The one on the bottom right was taken just yesterday!) Click through for larger.
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Jared Leto To Devour A Movie Theater Near You
Jared Leto is playing Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's assassin, in the upcoming film Chapter 27. Jared Leto is filling up the poster. Jared Leto will eat you. Jared Leto ate so much meat getting beefed up for this role that he developed gout, like a medieval king. Though he's lost the weight, and is supposed to be very good in the film, Jared Leto looks terrifying on this poster. Which is perhaps the point. [BigPictureRadio] Click for larger.
Damn Unpretty
Hottie boombalottie Natalie Portman would maybe like to become a politician when she is "too ugly for Hollywood." Which she says will happen by the time she's 36. Good luck, regular women! [Showbiz Spy]
Hottie boombalottie Natalie Portman would maybe like to become a politician when she is "too ugly for Hollywood." Which she says will happen by the time she's 36. Good luck, regular women! [Showbiz Spy]
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Scarlett Johansson Different From Natalie Portman In Two Big Ways
Scarlett Johansson got everyone's attention posing with Natalie Portman on the cover of this month's W, where they both looked hot but also like replicants from the same assembly line. Now of course Johansson is wisely making news in the other direction, by busting out and showing off how very different she is from Portman. She's been helped along by the intrepid Brit tabloid the Sun, which just ran a story that starts with the title "Scarlett Shows Off Johanssons" and then just gets classier. It comes from a screening in Berlin the two actresses attended together. Here's how the Sun captioned the photos: More »
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